Mardy Fish and Jurgen Melzer have reached career-high rankings, with Fish cracking the Top 10 for the first time, at No. 10, and the Austrian moving to No. 8. Fernando Verdasco dropped four spots to No. 12 as he failed to defend final-round points from Monte Carlo.
After winning his seventh crown in Monte Carlo, No. 1 Rafael Nadal begins this week with 12,870 points, still well ahead of Novak Djokovic, who is second with 9,640 points. Nadal is playing this week in Barcelona where he has no points to defend, but he still must defend 4000 points in the rest of the clay-court season, due to his 2010 titles in Madrid, Rome and Roland Garros. Young Canadian Milos Raonic moved up six places to No. 28, close to the seeding cut-off at Roland Garros. And ny winning the Tallahassee Challenger, with victories over James Blake and Wayne Odesnik, American Donald Young boosted his ranking to No. 98.—Matthew Cronin